They’re good dogs, Bront, and now they’re on your mobile device in a brand new game from We Rate Dogs and Fourthwall: Good Dogs.
In a world where my Twitter timeline is the most constant source of frustration and anxiety, it’s nice to have everything interrupted occasionally with a picture of a cute dog. We Rate Dogs has been the primary source of those dogs for me for the past few years, and in an announcement today, the account revealed a partnership with Fourthwall and Sandcrawler Entertainment to bring us a free mobile game, Good Dogs! for iOS and Android.
The game is marked as still in Early Access, so it may not exactly be brimming with content right out of the starting gate. At the moment, it’s a fairly small endless runner where you’re a dog running awkwardly through a park, dodging obstacles like humans and branches. Your job is to collect bones, which can be used to open “mystery crates” that presumably contain goodies like hats to decorate your doggo.
There are seven dogs to choose from on launch, including favorites like Kenneth and the Benepoop Cumbersplash, but most of them seem to cost real money to unlock.
There’s not a lot here for now, but We Rate Dogs promises updates soon such as more dog breeds and a different park to run through each month. Hopefully soon means very, very soon, because in spite of being free there’s not enough here to capture long-term attention at launch.
This is Pilot. He has mastered the synchronized head tilt and sneaky tongue slip. Usually not unlocked until later doggo days. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/YIV8sw8xkh
— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) January 31, 2017
That said, if you aren’t following @dog_rates on Twitter, get on that right this second. It’s a great account that takes audience-submitted photos of dogs and “rates” them almost universally positively, because dogs are amazing. Every day, followers are treated to photos of our best furry friends doing ridiculous and adorable things, complete with running gags like the account’s perpetual insistence that non-dog animals, such as goats, are dogs (albeit with poor ratings) and the ever-popular, “They’re good dogs, Brent.”
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It’s a beacon of fuzzy, wonderful hope in an ever-frustrating social media world. Hopefully, their mobile game ends up just as wonderful with time.